Joseph “Joe” Anderson is a seasoned banking professional with approximately 25 years of Banking and Risk Management experience.  Joe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Business Management.  Immediately upon graduation, Joe began his banking career with SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, GA as a Corporate Banking Associate supporting large corporate portfolios within the Southeast Corporate Banking Market. 

In June 2001, Joe was asked to be a team leader for a newly appointed department that was responsible and focused on operational risk for the Corporate Banking segment.  This Department migrated and eventually morphed into being the risk management department for the Treasury Management Services Division, which was responsible for managing all risk disciplines within the Treasury Management Division. Joe served as Vice President and Manager of the Treasury Management Risk Management until January 2011.

In January 2011, Joe moved from the 1st Line of Defense to the 2nd Line of Defense and joined SunTrust’s Corporate Risk Management Division as First Vice President and served as the Policy and Procedure Governance Manager.  In this role, Joe and his team designed the governance structure for all of the Bank’s policies and procedures.  The governance program included the establishment of a policy on policy and procedures, established operating controls, systems, and tools for the overall monitoring and oversight of the company’s policies and procedures. 

In January 2015, Joe Joined Regions Bank as Senior Vice President and served as the Settlement Risk Management Executive for the Company until January 2017, at which time Joe accepted the role as the Second Line of Defense Operational Risk Management Executive for Regions’ Capital Markets.

Joe joined Non-Financial Risk Management as the Head of Payments Risk Management in March 2018 and recently joined the Technology and Operations Division to serve as the Head of Risk Management and Governance in January 2021.